====== Curriculum Vitae ======

====== Hendrik J. (Rik) Blok ======

| Integrated Sciences \\ University of British Columbia \\ Room 466, 6356 Agricultural Rd. \\ Vancouver, BC \\ Canada, V6T 1Z2  | Tel: 604-736-6343 \\ [[rik.blok@ubc.ca | E-mail]] \\ [[http://www.zoology.ubc.ca/~rikblok/wiki/doku.php?id=start | Web]]  |

===== Teaching experience =====

  * Apr. 2003 – ... (ongoing)
    * Lecturer at Integrated Sciences, UBC \\ Director: Dr. Lee Groat
      * Instructor: ISCI 300, [[http://www.intsci.ubc.ca/wiki/doku.php?id=courses:isci300:start | Interdisciplinary Seminar]]. (40 – 120 students / yr.)
      * Co-Instructor: ISCI 320, [[http://www.intsci.ubc.ca/wiki/doku.php?id=courses:isci320:start | Research Development Retreat]]. (15 – 30 students / yr.)
      * Co-Instructor: ISCI 344, [[http://www.intsci.ubc.ca/wiki/doku.php?id=courses:isci344:start | Game Theory]]. (20 – 30 students / yr.)
      * Co-Instructor: ISCI 422, [[http://www.intsci.ubc.ca/wiki/doku.php?id=courses:isci422:start | Models in Science]]. (15 – 30 students / yr.)
      * Student advising and mentoring (20 – 40 students / yr.)
      * Administrative duties (program & course development, graduation adjudication, website maintenance, etc.) 
  * July 2003
    * Instructor: UBC Physics 102, [[http://www.zoology.ubc.ca/~rikblok/phys102 | Electricity, Light and Radiation]]. (95 students.) 
  * Jan. 2002 – Apr. 2002
    * Lab Instructor: UBC Physics 102, //Electricity, Light and Radiation//. 
  * Sept. 1993 – Apr. 2000
    * Teaching Assistant: UBC Physics 153, //Elements of Physics//. 

===== Research experience =====

  * Aug. 2005 – Aug. 2009
    * Research Associate at the Department of Zoology, UBC \\ Supervisor: Dr. Michael Doebeli \\ Spatial population dynamics modeling. See (Doebeli et al. 2007), (Pineda-Krch et al. 2007), and (Killingback, Blok, and Doebeli 2006) below for details. 
  * Sept. 2002 – Aug. 2005
    * Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Zoology, UBC \\ Supervisor: Dr. Michael Doebeli \\ Spatial population dynamics modeling. 
  * Sept. 2000 – Aug. 2002
    * NSERC Postdoctoral Fellow at the Centre for Applied Ethics, UBC \\ Supervisor: Dr. Peter Danielson \\ Applied theoretical statistical physics tools to evolutionary game theory to demonstrate that culture can drive genetic evolution.
  * May 1997 – Aug. 2000
    * Research Fellow (Ph.D. work), Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies, [[http://www.geog.ubc.ca/crpoints/ | Crisis Points Group]], UBC \\ Supervisor: Dr. Birger Bergersen \\ Developed multi-agent econophysics model which showed that financial markets may self-organize near a critical phase transition. See (Blok 2000) below for details.
  * May 1993 - Apr. 1997
    * M.Sc. and Ph.D. student at the Department of Physics, UBC \\ Supervisor: Dr. Birger Bergersen \\ Explored claims of self-organized criticality in two-dimensional cellular automata.  See (Blok and Bergersen 1999) and (Blok and Bergersen 1997) below for details.

===== Academic background =====

  * Dec. 1995 – Sept. 2000
    * University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada \\ Degree granted: Doctor of Philosophy in Physics \\ Supervisor: Dr. Birger Bergersen \\ Thesis: //On the nature of the stock market: Simulations and experiments//. See [(Blok00b)] (below) for details. 
  * May 1993 – Nov. 1995
    * University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada \\ Degree granted: Master of Science in Physics \\ Supervisor: Dr. Birger Bergersen \\ Thesis: //Life without bounds: Does the Game of Life exhibit Self-Organized Criticality in the thermodynamic limit?// See [(Blok95b)] (below) for details. 
  * Sept. 1991 – Apr. 1993
    * University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada \\ Degree granted: Bachelor of Science, Physics Honours
  * Sept. 1988 – Apr. 1991
    * Okanagan College, Kelowna, BC, Canada \\ Degree sought: Bachelor of Science, Physics Majors

===== Research skills =====

  * Analytic toolkit
    * Mean-field theory, 1993 – present.
    * Master equation, Fokker-Planck approximation, 1999 – present.
    * Game theory (Nash equilibria, utility, second-order preferences), 1999 – present.
    * Second-order critical phase transitions (scale-invariance, universality), 1993 – 2007.
    * Occupation number representation (second quantization), 2001.
    * Self-organized criticality, 1993 – 2000.
    * Bayesian probability theory, 1998 – 2000.
    * First-order phase transitions (nucleation, intermittency), 1999 – 2000.
    * Renormalization group (nonequilibrium/dynamically driven), 2000. 
  * Data analysis
    * Characterization of critical phase transitions, determination of scaling exponents, 1995 – present.
    * Finite-size scaling, 1995 – 2000.
    * Fractional Brownian motion, Hurst exponent, autocorrelation, 1999 – 2000.
    * Levy flight, synthesis and characterization, 1999 – 2000. 
  * Computer simulation
    * Cellular automata, 1993 – present.
    * Agent- or individual-based simulations, 1996 – present.
    * Evolutionary game theory (replicator dynamics), 1999 – present.
    * Types of updating schema (eg. parallel, sequential, Poisson), 1998 – 2001.
    * Types of interaction networks (eg. mean-field, lattice, small-worlds), 2000 – 2001.
    * Boundary conditions in spatial models, 1995 – 1997. 

===== Computer skills =====

  * Microsoft Excel
    * Simulations, data analysis and visualization, 1992 – present.
    * Developed add-in to easily export charts to graphic format files (1999). 
  * C and C++
    * Simulations, data analysis and utilities, 1993 – present.
    * Borland C++Builder (MS-Windows), 1997 – 2007.
    * Constructed general purpose modeling tool for MS-Windows ([[http://www.zoology.ubc.ca/~rikblok/software/r2dtoo | R2DToo]]), 2001.
    * Gnu C++ (Unix), 1993 – 1997. 
  * Gnuplot
    * Data analysis and visualization, 1995 – present. 
  * LaTeX
    * Document preparation, 1998 – present. 
  * NetLogo
    * Simulations and visualization, 2003 – present. 
  * MATLAB
    * Simulations, data analysis and visualization, 2004 – present. 
  * Mathematica
    * Theory and analysis, 2007 – present. 
  * Waterloo Maple
    * Theory and analysis, 1997 – 2007. 
  * Awk
    * Data analysis, 1998 – 2004. 
  * Assorted
    * Also some experience with JavaScript, Pascal, Perl, and BASIC. 

===== Publications (refereed) =====

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===== References =====

^ Lee Groat (Professor, Earth and Ocean Sciences)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      ||
| Director, [[http://www.intsci.ubc.ca/| Integrated Sciences]] (2007 – ... (ongoing)); Co-instructor, [[http://www.intsci.ubc.ca/wiki/doku.php?id=courses:isci320:start| ISCI 320]] (2008, 2009)                                                                                                                                                                                       ||
| Integrated Sciences \\ UBC \\ Room 466, 6356 Agricultural Road \\ Vancouver, B.C. \\ Canada, V6T 1Z2                                                                                                                                          | [[lgroat@eos.ubc.ca| E-mail]] \\ [[http://www.eos.ubc.ca/personal/groat/| Web]] \\ Tel: 604-822-3326 \\ Fax: 604-822-2416             |
^ Michael Doebeli (Professor, Zoology and Mathematics)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 ||
| Co-instructor, [[http://www.intsci.ubc.ca/wiki/doku.php?id=courses:isci320:start| ISCI 320]] (2004 – 2006, 2010); Postdoctoral research supervisor (2003 – 2009); Director, [[http://www.intsci.ubc.ca/| Integrated Sciences]] (2002 – 2006)                                                                                                                                         ||
| Department of Zoology \\ UBC \\ 6270 University Boulevard \\ Vancouver, B.C. \\ Canada, V6T 1Z4                                                                                                                                               | [[doebeli@zoology.ubc.ca| E-mail]] \\ [[http://www.math.ubc.ca/~doebeli/| Web]] \\ Tel: 604-822-3326 \\ Fax: 604-822-2416             |
^ Douw Steyn (Professor Emeritus, Atmospheric Science)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 ||
| Co-instructor, [[http://www.intsci.ubc.ca/wiki/doku.php?id=courses:isci422:start| ISCI 422]] (2004)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  ||
| Department of Earth and Ocean Sciences \\ UBC \\ 6339 Stores Road \\ Vancouver, B.C. \\ Canada, V6T 1Z4                                                                                                                                       | [[dsteyn@eos.ubc.ca| E-mail]] \\ [[http://www.eos.ubc.ca/about/faculty/D.Steyn.html| Web]] \\ Tel: 604-827-5517 \\ Fax: 604-822-6088  |
^ Birger Bergersen (Professor Emeritus, Statistical Physics)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           ||
| M.Sc. and Ph.D. supervisor (1993 – 2000)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             ||
| Department of Physics and Astronomy \\ UBC \\ 6224 Agricultural Road \\ Vancouver, B.C. \\ Canada, V6T 1Z1                                                                                                                                    | [[birger@physics.ubc.ca| E-mail]] \\ [[http://www.physics.ubc.ca/~birger/homep.htm| Web]] \\ Tel: 604-822-4360 \\ Fax: 604-822-5324   |
